Headlined on Jan. 27 “Humble hero saves boy, 3; Pulls child from burning Solanco home.” Said Jamie Sheetz: “I’m just a hillbilly…I did what a man’s supposed to do.” WATCHDOG: Sheetz, although only 40, is a throwback to an earlier time before the confusion of gender roles. There were things that women were expected to […]
Month: January 2009
Re: City heavily invested in Convention Center
You make good points in this story but it also serves as a great example to the ignorance about the true realities of the financing on this project. With the exception of a select few at Stevens and Lee, who dreamed up this scam to benefit Penn Square Partners, and the top management at PSP, […]
Lancaster divorce courts biased against men
This is the first time in my writing years that no one will publish an article regarding “divorce” and its bias in many cases. The following are just a few of the injustices that have been known as fact: Divorce Master’s are to make a decision within 30 days…some take months, years to make a […]
NEW ERA
The Jan. 21st editorial is headed “Table games not good bet for Pa.” WATCHDOG: Let’s remember this and see what they have to say two years from now if the convention center comes a cropper and Dale High and the Lancaster Newspapers make use of the casino license that many think that then Sen. Gibson […]
NEW ERA
The Jan. 22nd editorial “A way to simplify federal tax code” advocates a federal income flat tax of 20% for everyone. “If all or most of the tax deductions were eliminated – including the one for home mortgages (although, we don’t see that happening) – virtually the entire federal tax code could be pitched, according […]
Reader forwards comment from afar
An out-of-state reader of NewsLanc who read about TRRAAC’s investigation of the sources of public funding for the $46 million project to relocate and expand the Norfolk Southern Dillerville Rail Yard emailed me his reaction: “The F&M and LGH fundraising is a great example of manipulation of state and federal funding mechanisms and of misrepresentation […]
Should judges redo mortgages?
The real problem is that the servicing company is in control. They have no incentive to negotiate because they make money by driving the foreclosure process forward. They don’t care whether the loan is paid or not. In fact, they do better if it has trouble. For some time they have been deliberately holding payments […]
"Sensible ideas" vs. The Big Lie
The Jan. 26 editorial “Sensible ideas” continues to perpetuate the myth that “..the former Lancaster County Board of Commissioners.. members met privately to decide the sale of Conestoga View Nursing Home.” It probably never happened! Rather, Commissioners Dick Shellenberger, Molly Henderson and Pete Shaub were unjustly investigated for over 20 trumped up charges with the […]
Award Season reviewed by Santa Monica Reporter
NewsLanc’s movie reviewer Dan Cohen’s column “Award Season” is now posted under Santa Monica Reporter. Cohen discusses “Doubt”, “Slumbdog Millionaire”, “The Reader” and “The Wrestler” with the knowledge and authority of a Hollywood screen writer, director and producer.
Awards Season
by Dan Cohen The Motion Picture Academy has spoken, and every critic, executive, and psychic in Hollywood is working overtime to woo voters or second guess them. To mark the occasion, a few comments on the films I have yet to discuss, that will probably be making return appearances to local screens. Doubt At the […]
Questions for F&M and LGH
I re-read the beginning of TRRAAC’s letter giving details of the applications for funding… What I would like to know is: why wouldn’t F&M and LGH provide that information when TRRAAC first asked for it? Or even before they asked, for that matter? What was the purpose behind the secrecy, other than that is the […]
President Obama should investigate convention centers
Last evening I emailed President Obama as per his request of the nation. I pleaded with him and his staff to do a study on ALL the monies from the state level that has been wasted on projects to revitalize cities in the form of convention centers and the debt that the cities are taking […]
Iowa Opens Convention Center
A block-long 50,000 square foot convention center. Sounds familiar. Built for $20 million? Lancaster’s block-long project has had cost overruns higher than that!
Iowa opens convention center
A block-long 50,000 square foot convention center. Sounds familiar. Built for $20 million? Lancaster’s block-long project has had cost overrunshigher than that!